Review
jaw-dropping ... compelling - a must-read ... Stuart has an unanswerable case --Sunday Times
The Sun
Tristram Stuart lifts the lid on the obscene levels of produce ending up in landfill ... read it and weep
Book of the Week, Sunday Telegraph
Stuart's book is passionate, closely argued and guaranteed to make the most manic consumer peer guiltily into the recesses of their fridge
Scotland on Sunday
WASTE is an extremely thought-provoking, passionate study which could make even the biggest sceptic think twice before putting leftovers in the bin
New Scientist
In WASTE, Tristram Stuart ingeniously unites many food scandals that often do not get the attention they deserve ... usefully, Stuart offers examples of what we could be doing better
Product Description
With shortages, volatile prices and nearly one billion people hungry, the world has a food problem – or thinks it does. Farmers, manufacturers, supermarkets and consumers in North America and Europe discard up to half of their food– enough to feed all the world’s hungry at least three times over. Forests are destroyed and nearly one tenth of the West’s greenhouse gas emissions are released growing food that will never be eaten. While affluent nations throw away food through neglect, in the developing world crops rot because farmers lack the means to process, store and transport them to market. But there could be surprisingly painless remedies for what has become one of the world’s most pressing environmental and social problems. Travelling from Yorkshire to China, from Pakistan to Japan, and introducing us to foraging pigs, potato farmers, freegans and food industry directors, Stuart encounters grotesque examples of profligacy, but also inspiring innovations and ways of making the most of what we have. Combining front-line investigation with startling new data, Waste shows how the way we live now has created a global food crisis– and what we can do to fix it.
About the Author
Tristram Stuart has been a freelance writer for Indian newspapers, a project manager in Kosovo and a prominent critic of the food industry. He has made regular contributions to television documentaries, radio and newspaper debates on the social and environmental aspects of food. His first book, The Bloodless Revolution, 'a genuinely revelatory contribution to the history of human ideas' (Daily Telegraph), was published in 2006. He lives in the UK.
